John Grey

John Grey, PhD, is a couples coach, author and founder of Healing Couples Retreats. For the last 30 years, he has specialized in conducting intensive marriage retreats. Having worked with thousands of clients, John is an internationally recognized couples retreat coach and pioneer in the field. Healing Couples Retreats are conducted in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, set in Sonoma County, in the friendly small town of Sebastopol. Sonoma is one of the premiere grape-growing areas in the world. The landscape is a breathtaking patchwork of vineyards spread across gentle hills, offering one of the most beautiful terrains in California. A marriage retreat with John offers a fast track to positive change - an intensive, supportive place to achieve profound results. John's methodology for helping couples is uniquely informed by research in relationship satisfaction, neuroscience, and attachment theory. He regularly trains therapists and counselors in this new, highly effective, scientific-based approach to couples therapy. John started out as a psychologist at Stanford University, after which he went into private practice and began teaching communication workshops and training programs for counselors and helping professionals. In 1990 he started working with couples using an intensive retreat format. As an strong advocate of self-help, John has written three books on the topic of intimacy and relationship that give people practical tools to maximize shared happiness and minimize reactive patterns and distress.